Social Media addiction is a bigger problem than you think.
Social networkers and creators are trying so hard to make their networks so addictive that you can’t resist them. A study shows that people intended to quit them, but they couldn’t make more than a few days. They are fear of missing out because everyone is using social media; everyone has a phone. That notification number draws them into it. Image ideas are two people have their phone, one you can see the notification number on top of the Facebook app, one you can see the notification number is on while the person is on Facebook; another idea is a person is on Facebook watching a funny video and interacting with friends.
It’s Not All Bad: The Social Good of Social Media
The main point is that major new outlets, corporations, and persons of interest use social media to deliver messages to the masses. When news or items are posting immediately, the public can stay informed. Delivering new alerts on social media channels reach more people faster. Social media can also be a valuable tool for sending safety messages and showing photos from severe crashes resulting from distractions. Sometimes, social media does more good than harm in retrospect. Image idea: one person is on Facebook looking at the posts about internship or designs in Group or Public information (Communication Design @ CityTech) on Facebook; another idea-a person is using Facebook Messenger on the phone, talking about homework with his/her classmates.
The notification number is a big part of the first article. The challenge of showing this is that it is so small. If you really want to explore this, you might want to do something a bit more abstract like take a photo of someone’s face and impose on it in a transparent layer a huge notification number or show someone reaching for it or looking through it. there are so many ideas you could pursue in this vein.
For the second article, you can certainly just show people using their phones and light it to make it look light bright and happy.